Yeah, that list is loaded with some overpaid guys. Tavon Austin. Brock Osweiler ... some real cringe-worthy contracts for unimpressive players!
Pouncey's contract flabbergasted me at the time. I was hoping, and to a degree it has, that the acceleration of the salary cap increase would make it look more palatable. But the reality is that it was waaaaaaaaaaaay too much money at the time, and given his increasingly worsening healthy issues--which are rather predictable because OL with injuries tend to get injured increasingly more often each year--that Pouncey deal now looks like an anchor around our necks. We can't cut him and move on, and we certainly cannot depend on him.
Mike Pouncey can play. No argument there. But when he's a Center, required to help mitigate the undervalued and understaffed positions of RG and LG, he better be playing every week. Mike Pouncey is utterly unreliable because of his health.
I gotta say, Mike Pouncey's inclusion on this list is warranted. He may not be as horrible of a salary decision as Tavon Austin or Brock Osweiler, but he definitely deserves his spot on that list.
Get new scouts specifically for OL, and pay them with all that money Ross loves to spend. We are obviously not good at scouting OL unless they are such a consensus great and complete player that they go in the 1st round. Those guys aren't hard to scout. We need to pay our scouts to get us decent players in the middle rounds, which so far we haven't done (although I do have hope for Asiata).
